XIV. Sir Nicholas Breton. A Prayer. Edward Farr, ed. 1845. Select Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

A Prayer

XIV. Sir Nicholas Breton


PLANTE, Lorde, in me the tree of godly lyfe;
Hedge me about with the strong fence of faith:
If thee it please, use eke thy proyning knife,
Least that, oh Lord! as a good gardiner saith,
If suckers draw the sappe from roots on hie,	5
Perhaps, in tyme, the top of tree may die.
Let, Lord, this tree be set within thy garden-wall
Of Paradise, where growes no one ill sprigg at all.